Abraham Helman (10 December 1907 – 16 March 1952) was a Canadian

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player.

Biography

Abraham Helman was silver medalist of the

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in 1933. Also he was

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Chess Champion in 1933 and 1944, and

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Chess Champion in 1947 and 1948, and British Columbia Fast Chess Champion in 1948. Abraham Helman played for Canada in the

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: * In 1939, at reserve board in the

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(+1, =0, -2). Abraham Helman was born on the territory of the

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. He came to Canada no later than 1926. Abraham Helman lived in Winnipeg. He was a member of the Winnipeg Jewish Chess Club. In 1945 he moved to Vancouver. Together with D. Creamer and F. Antikov, Abraham Helman founded the Vancouver Jewish Chess Club and became its first president. Abraham Helman was a businessman. During his stay in Vancouver, he was the owner of a furniture store ''Tip Top Furniture''. Abraham Helman was supposed to participate in the 1951 Canadian Chess Championship, which had the status of a World Chess Championship Zonal tournament, but declined the invitation, citing illness. He died suddenly of heart failure. In 1952, in memory of Abraham Helman, a memorial tournament in fast chess was held in Vancouver (won by J. Taylor and C. Millar). Also dedicated to Helman was a fast chess tournament organized in 1953, which took place in Winnipeg during the Canadian Chess Championship (tournament won by

Daniel Yanofsky Daniel Abraham "Abe" Yanofsky (March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician. An eight-time Canadian chess champion, Yanofsky was Canada's first grandmaster and the first grandmaste ...

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Abraham Helman
chess games at 365chess.com 1907 births 1952 deaths Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century Canadian chess players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen {{Canada-chess-bio-stub Canadian chess players